Chicken with bloated crop

[micstrachan]

I have had luck giving 1mL of clotrimazole (vaginal cream) orally twice daily for a week in treating sour crop.

• Remain calm so you don’t stress the bird out.
• Draw up cream in oral syringe.
• Hold bird on lap with wings wrapped in towel, taking care not to put pressure on crop.
• With one hand, reach behind bird’s head and grasp gently at base of beak.
• Pry beak open.
• With other hand, squirt a little cream under tongue and let bird swallow on her own.
• Repeat until full dose has been given.

 

[coach723]

If she is not passing anything solid, just liquid, then you can try dulcolax to see if it gets things moving. Just stool softener, not stimulant. Giving fluids and massage may work. Another option, which I would say is last ditch, is a molasses or epsom salt flush. It will cause diarrhea, and is dehydrating, so you have to make sure fluids are given, tubing if necessary. Dehydration will just make things worse. But it may get things moving. A digestive tract that is not moving can cause the crop to sour, so both may be going on. Massaging the crop may help, if that is the root cause. If you feel any kind of mass in the crop, then massaging and giving liquids or coconut oil may help break it up and let it pass, assuming there is no foreign object that is too large. You may be able to feel something if that is the case. If it's lower down in the tract then all you can do is try to get it to move, and it may or may not depending on what is the ultimate cause. If a vet is an option then an xray might be helpful.
This is a long thread, may be helpful to you, lots of advice and worth reading through:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/impacted-crop.948002/

 

[azhnasa]

I live in Lafayette.

 

[azhnasa]

Thank you guys. Let me read the other long thread and try the cream too.

 

[Henriettamom919]

Thank you guys. Let me read the other long thread and try the cream too.

Just buy regular yeast infection cream like you would for a person but minus additive ingredients- just the Miconazole active ingredient. Generic is fine. If her crop isn't sour yet, it will be soon so feed her coconut oil and massage it several times a day until it empties as much as possible. You want to start near the top and gently massage moving downward as you go.

I'm sorry she's not feeling well

 

[azhnasa]

Hello friends !
I just wanted to give everybody an update.
Thanks to your advice and recommendations, my chicken is now fully recovered and is back to normal.
I really appreciate the time and attention you gave to me and my hen
You guys are wonderful. Thank you so much !